James A. Garfield Quotes
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.
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Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
